A Sinhala-language title on drama and theatre arts, the name translating roughly as "the fundamentals of drama and stagecraft". The subject sits within the study of performance as it is taught and written about in Sri Lanka, where theatre has its own long line of teachers, translators and practitioners.
It is published by Godage, an established Colombo publisher issuing books in Sinhala and English across literature, the arts and academic subjects. Godage's list carries a good deal of coursework and general-interest writing of this kind, aimed at Sinhala readers at home rather than at an export market, which is why titles like this one are rarely easy to find outside the island.
The text is in Sinhala throughout, so a reader needs to be comfortable in the language. That makes it most useful to students following drama and theatre courses in Sinhala medium, to teachers assembling reading for the same, and to Sri Lankan readers abroad who want writing on the performing arts in their first language rather than in translation.
Worth considering if you are building a Sinhala-language shelf on the arts, or if you already know the subject and want a home-published treatment of it.
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